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Himmler in San Sebastián with José Finat and Gerardo Caballero Olabézar [].. The visit of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to Spain in October 1940 had a major propaganda component for the Francoist regime, which at that time was invested in a diplomatic rapprochement with Nazi Germany with the anticipation of Spain's entry into World War II in support of the Axis powers.
Wolff believed that a separate peace agreement might break the alliance of United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, as the Allies agreed that they would accept only unconditional surrender during the Casablanca Conference. Hearing of the negotiations, the Soviet Union also wanted to send a Soviet representative to be part of the ...
United Kingdom. Leopold von Hoesch (1932–1936) Joachim von Ribbentrop (1936–1938) Herbert von Dirksen (1938–1939) Consul General in Calcutta. Werner von Ow-Wachendorf (1933–1936) Erdmann von Podewils-Dürnitz (1936–1939) Consul General in Hong Kong. Hermann Gipperich (1933–1939) Consul General in Jerusalem. Heinrich Wolff (1933–1935)
Germany and the United Kingdom have had diplomatic relations since German unification in 1871. [1] Prior to that, the only German states holding diplomatic relations with the U.K. were the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1835, and the three Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, since 1853.
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General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) operations, presented Hitler with a formal plan to cut Britain from the east of its empire by invading Spain, Gibraltar, North Africa and the Suez Canal, instead of invading Britain. On 12 July 1940, the OKW set up a special group for the necessary planning.
The Meeting of Hendaye, or Interview of Hendaye, took place between Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler (then respectively Caudillo of Spain and Führer of Germany) [1] on 23 October 1940 at the railway station in Hendaye, France, near the Spanish–French border.
Contrastingly, relations between East Germany and the United Kingdom were poor owing to the former’s alliance with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. West Germany was a founding member of the European Communities , later to become the European Union , which the United Kingdom joined in 1973.